5254 Ulysses is a large Jupiter trojan( that is, one of a large group of asteroids that share the planet Jupiter's orbit around the Sun.) It is approximately 78 kilometers (48 miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 7 November 1986, by Belgian astronomer Eric Elst at the Haute-Provence Observatory in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire near Marseille, southeastern France. The assumed C-type asteroid belongs to the 40 largest Jupiter trojans and has a longer-than-average rotation period of 28.72 hours. It was later named after "Ulysses", the Latinized name of the legendary hero from Greek mythology, Odysseus. Ulysses is an assumed, carbonaceous C-type asteroid. Its V–I color index of 0.97 is typical for most D-type Jupiter trojans.
Physical Characteristics
In September 1994, photometric observations of Ulysses were made by astronomers Stefano Mottola and Uri Carsenty at ESO's La Silla Observatory, Chile, using the Bochum 0.61-metre Telescope. The observations were used to build a lightcurve showing a well-defined rotation period of 28.72 hours with a brightness variation of 0.32 magnitude. In March 2014, another rotational lightcurve was obtained in the R-band by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory, California, which gave a concurring period of 28.7840 hours with an amplitude of 0.33 magnitude (U=2). While not being a slow rotator, Ulysses' period longer than the 2 to 20 hours measured for most asteroids.
According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), the Japanese Akari satellite, and the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Ulysses measures between 76.15 and 80.00 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.058 and 0.087. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.0608 and a diameter of 77.93 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 9.2.
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In the Ace Combat series of games, the asteroid is named "Ulysses 1986VG1" and is identified as a moon of Jupiter rather than a Trojan. Its collision with a previously-undiscovered asteroid named Polyphemus in 1994 propels a swarm of meteoroids towards the Earth, resulting in catastrophic worldwide impact events in 1999. This event is pivotal to the plot of the games.
Holy shit it kinda just hit me, but like the white people and to some extent PoC who play Schrodingers Imperialist with the USA and its many atrocities literally don't view people outside of the USA as human lmfao
like, it's sooooo fucking hard getting someone to believe that Iraqis were victimized by the USA, and it's very rare that a mayo will feel that way. It's like nothing those people experience even fucking matters when all of them will tell you how garbage it is, like Hakim. Hakim genuinely seems to hate the USA and he will offhandedly mention about having his neighborhood shelled and shit lmfao
Yup. And you can take that one further and say many of them don't view people outside their state, town, family, or self as human.
Oh, and good luck trying to get anyone to resolve the cognitive dissonance surrounding their politician of choice and that politician's various crimes against humanity. Hillary called for bombing in Sarajevo? Do you want the Republicans to win!?
OBAMA TURNED LIBYA INTO A COMPLETE POST APOCALYPTIC SHITHOLE!? OBAMA DEPORTED MORE MEXICANS THAN TRUMP?
YOU MUST HATE BLACK PEOPLE, YOU ARE A NAZI, DIE TANKIE!
It's something I felt as a kid when the War on Terror was starting. There was no way those bombs could only be hitting Terror and at the same time being fed amnesty international footage of Afghan children my age and how oppressed they are under the Taliban for propaganda reasons and my brain went to we are bombing kids just like me
The way I've found to get liberals to shut the fuck up is to use quoutes from leftists whose past has been liberalised to hell (Nelson Mandela, MLK JR, etc) about how liberalism sucks, the US just invaded Iraq for oil, Libya is an ally, etc. They usually shut up or the masks slips and they become real racist.
One you can do with Biden is tell libs how he blatantly lied about visiting Mandela in jail and visiting South Africa to help the ANC, and him expecting people to believe these lies in order to gain votes is racist and extremely disrespectful to those who actually fought to end apartheid. And due to that you can't support him.